Improvement in wire fences



M. KELLY. Wire-Fence.

No. 208,399. Patented Spt. 24-,1878.

PETERS. FHIOTO-LETHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON. D C

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MICHAEL KELLY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN WIRE FENCES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 208,399, datedSeptember 24, 1878 application filed August 16, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, lVIICHAEL KELLY, of New York city, county and Stateof New York, have invented a new and Improved Wire Fence, of which thefollowing is a specification:

This invention relates to an improved wire fence which will efi'ectivelyprevent cattle or other animals from passing over or through the same.

The invention consists in the combination of the horizontal wires withshort pointed wires placed at right angles to the same, and attachedsubstantially in the manner hereinafter described.

The invention also consists in the details of construction hereinaftermore fully pointed out.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improvedwire fence. Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse section on the line a; as,Fig. 1. Figs. 3 and 5 are detail views of one of the pointed wires, andFig. 4 a detail view of a modification thereof.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all thefigures.

The letters A A represent the two uprights or posts of a fence. The sameare connected by three (more or less) parallel horizontal wires, a a (0which are passed through holes in the uprights A A, or are otherwisesecured thereto in the customary or in suitable manner. I

b b are a series of short wires, pointed at both ends, and hung on thewires a a a at preferably regular intervals. They serve to prevent thecattle from passing over or through the fence, and at the same timeserve as connecting instruments for the weaving of the fence. The wires12 project at right angles from the horizontal wires, and are preferablymade with an Sshaped bend at their center, as shown in Fig. 3, so thatthey may be hung on the wires a a a The wires 11 should be arrangedalternately on the several horizontal wires, so that the wires 1) whichare hung on the uppermost and lowermost wires, a a (if three such wiresare used,) are in the same vertical plane, while the wires b on thecentral wire, a are arranged midway horizontally between them.

I connect the barbed wires 1) b by zigzag wiresc to the wires a a&c.that is to say, one wire 0 connects the pointed wires b, which arehung on the wires a and a, by being coiled around or passed through theS-shaped portions of such wires, in manner clearly indicated in Figs. 1and 3. A second zigzag wire 0 connects in similar manner the wires b 011the horizontal wires a a It W111 be seen that the pointed wires 1) arein this way securely held in place, while at the same time the alternateangles of the wires 0 are connected to the horizontal wires by the loopsof the barbed wires, thereby strengthening the fence and preventinganimals from passing through the same.

The wires 1) may terminate in three-sided bayonet-points, as shown inFig. 5, or in points of other form.

In Fig. 4 I have shown a modification of the barbed wires 12. Instead ofmaking the barbed wires with an S-shaped central bend, they are madestraight, and pass through a block, d, which is provided withperforations, through which the wires a and 0 may pass.

The above-described fence may be readily erected, is inexpensive, andwill effectively prevent animals from passing over or through the same.It is, moreover, very durable, as all its parts are intimatelyconnected.

I claim- The combination, in a wire fence, of the horizontal wires a a awith the barbs b, which are hung bodily on the horizontal wires inalternate vertical rows, and with the zigzag wires 0 c,each of whichconnects alternately the barbs on two horizontal wires, all beingarranged in such a way that each of the barbs on the central wire, a, isconnected to both wires 0 0 above and below the same, while the barbs onthe uppermost and lowermost wires, a a are connected, respectively, toonly one of such zigzag wires 0, substantially as and for the purposeherein shown and described.

The foregoing description of my invention signed by me this 14th day ofAugust, 1878.

MICHAEL KELLY.

Witnesses:

F. v. BRIESEN, J. TURK.

